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"Peter's Sermon"
Acts 2:14-39 -- Part 1
used by New King James Version

4﻿ But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words.

﻿15﻿ For these are not drunk, as you suppose, ﻿﻿since it is only ﻿﻿the third hour of the day. ﻿

16﻿ But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

17 ‘And ﻿﻿it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
﻿That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and ﻿your daughters shall prophesy,
Your young men shall see visions,
Your old men shall dream dreams.

18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
﻿﻿And they shall prophesy.

19 ﻿﻿I will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath:
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

20 ﻿﻿The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.

21 And it shall come to pass
That ﻿﻿whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.’
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22﻿ “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you ﻿﻿by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know— ﻿

23﻿ Him, ﻿﻿being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, ﻿﻿you ﻿﻿have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death; ﻿

24﻿ ﻿﻿whom God raised up, having ﻿﻿loosed the ﻿﻿pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. ﻿

25﻿ For David says concerning Him:
I foresaw the Lord always before my face,
For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.

27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see ﻿﻿corruption.

28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
You will make me full of joy in Your presence.’

﻿29﻿ “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you ﻿﻿of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

﻿30﻿ Therefore, being a prophet, ﻿﻿and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, ﻿according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, ﻿

31﻿ he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, ﻿﻿that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. ﻿

32﻿ ﻿﻿This Jesus God has raised up, ﻿﻿of which we are all witnesses.

﻿33﻿ Therefore ﻿﻿being exalted ﻿﻿to ﻿﻿the right hand of God, and ﻿having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He ﻿﻿poured out this which you now see and hear.

﻿34﻿ “For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself:
The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
35 Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”’
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36﻿ “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

﻿37﻿ Now when they heard this, ﻿they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”

﻿38﻿ Then Peter said to them, ﻿﻿“Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the ﻿﻿remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ﻿

﻿39﻿ For the promise is to you and ﻿to your children, and ﻿to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”